AUTHOR VISITS
with Vivian Walsh

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SCHOOLS

Vivian Walsh makes a limited number of school visits each year, October through May. Please feel free to contact vivianlwalsh@yahoo.com to inquire about fees, expenses and availability.

Vivian Walsh can make a total of three presentations a day to groups of up to 150 students at a time.

I am happy to talk with the very young or the kind of young.

For kindergarten through Third grade, I will show images, read from my books and answer questions. Presentations to this age group are thirty minutes, or longer, depending on attention span.

With older children (Fourth through Sixth) I put more emphasis on the process of writing a book. Tracing a book back to its flash (or germ) of a good idea. I talk about the process of building and refining a project until someone is willing to mail it to China and print up hundreds and thousands of hardbound books.

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SCI FI WORKSHOPS

Whenever you write a story you're taking what you know and re-telling it. In the science fiction workshop we will start with a scientific idea and make-up our own scientific theories while weaving captivating characters through all of our invented hot lava or star dust.

TALL TALE WORKSHOPS

Students are taught the parameters of a tall tale and then asked, as a group, to make up a highly exaggerated tale about their school or town.

CONFERENCES?
Yes, sign me up.

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e-mail vivianlwalsh@yahoo.com to request a visit


Vivian Walsh is the author of these books for children:


* * * Olive * * *
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Olive My Love
* * * * * * Mr. Lunch * * * * * *
Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride
Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe
Free Lunch
* * * Monkey Business * * *
Gluey
Penguin Dreams
Going to the Getty